Format of second HDD...

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DD

I have recently installed a second HDD and made it the boot disc. Having
transferred all the information I need from the old HDD, can I format
the old drive? After formatting the drive do I need to do anything else
before I will be able to access it and use it for storage?

DD (Win XP Home)
 
How did you make this second HDD the boot disk? A simple test that
should provide an answer to your question would be to pull the power
connection on the drive then try to boot and use your computer. If the
computer boots and runs fine with the drive unplugged then you know that
it is safe to format the drive, you can just use the built-in Windows
Disk Management tool to format the drive.

John
 
DD, before you format your old HD I would leave it alone for about say a
month just incase the new HD fails,after a month the new drive should be
ok,if eletronics are going to fail (due to a defect) they will do it fairly
soon.
 
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